Brown, Joe

BROWN, FAIL

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 11/25/2011 at 18:20:31

Brown, Joe -
Friends in this community were grieved to learn of the tragic death of Joe Brown which occurred Friday in Chicago.

Mr. Brown, who was employed as Signal maintainer, was repairing a switch in the Burlington yards in Chicago when he was struck by a passenger train and killed instantly at 10:56 Friday night. The body was taken to his mothers home, Mrs. C. A. Gates, of Gravity. Funeral services were held in Corning January 22, at the Methodist church conducted by Mrs. Dessie Cupp Cook Phillalas, of Rockport, Mo. Interment was made in Walnut Grove cemetery.

Joe Brown was born August 15, 1894, and died January 18, 1929, being 34 years, 5 months and 8 days old. He was reared in this vicinity and attended the Corning schools. He was employed for five years in Villisca by the Burlington railroad and last May went to Chicago to accept a position as a signal maintainer, which was a fine advancement. He was a man of pleasing personality and was making rapid advancement in the occupation which he had chosen.

He was married to Miss Francis Fail January 1, 1918 and to this union was born Doris Elna, who is now five years old. He is also survived by his widow and his mother, Mrs. C. A. Gates; one sister, Mrs. Myrtle Black, of Conway,
three .brothers, Arthur of Clearfield, Floyd of Kent, and Lloyd of Sharpsburg.

Mrs. Brown's brother, Reid Fail of Ontario, Canada, went to Chicago after the accident and accompanied the body to Corning.

Mr. Brown has a host of friends in the community who grieve with the family because of the death of this young man whose death cut short a successful career in his early manhood.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 31, 1929